it seemed efficient cargo area filling was yet another…

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM”

— Wendy Wax

“I got my first driver’s license in Michigan when I turned twelve.”

— Wendy Wax

“Give a man an inch and he’ll call himself a ruler,”

— Wendy Wax

“Dottie, spray her hair some more so that it can’t fall forward. It’s hiding her, um, profile.” This was Jonathan the director’s euphemism for…

— Wendy Wax

“They looked at each other. “I don’t understand it. But I know who sent it.” Maddie Singer’s thumbs and her iPhone were often incompatible.…

— Wendy Wax

“ladies’ clothing aisle—strategically located just past the automotive section—where Avery and Madeline selected some of the ugliest shorts and T-shirts Nicole had ever seen.”

— Wendy Wax

“We honeymooned on the SS Franklin,” Max said. “We were the onboard entertainment even though it was Millie’s first time onstage. When I saw…

— Wendy Wax

“The last time you gave me ‘Hightower detail’ he caught me with his underwear in my hands.” “I’m sorry I missed that.” Nicole’s voice…

— Wendy Wax

“Madeline Singer had recently achieved two things that surprised her: a senior citizen discount; and the legal right to date.”

— Wendy Wax

“Either way would give her a shot at covering their most pressing expenses until Malcolm Dyer was found and the remainder of their money…

— Wendy Wax

“the fact that her children were so obviously living their own lives was bittersweet. Their independence was what you hoped for and worked toward,…

— Wendy Wax

“What defines us isn’t how we behave when things are good, Andrew, but how we respond when they aren’t.”

— Wendy Wax

“Working with your ex-husband was almost as much fun as a double root canal. Without anesthesia. Doing it in front of television cameras was…

— Wendy Wax

“Somehow she’d clabbered together a series of student loans to get her undergraduate degree at Boston College. Her graduation gift to herself was a…

— Wendy Wax

“it was, in fact, possible to accidentally accelerate in reverse.”

— Wendy Wax